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Yet the widely held assumption in coaching circles is that Carlisle wants to hire an assistant coach with head-coaching experience after the departures of Dwane Casey (to Toronto) and Stotts (to Portland) during the last two offseasons.

Two coaching sources said late Thursday that a new name to watch in the Mavs' search, who fulfills the head-coaching prerequisites, is Jim O'Brien, who replaced Carlisle in Indiana in the 2007 offseason.

"Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel

"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "

DC was one of the most vocal cracking on JOB too, and this should be lesson to everyone on why you just keep your mouth shut in situations like these. You never know when the person you are cracking on might work with you again.

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Re: JOB to reappear as Mavs assistant coach?

I feel bad for Dahntay and DC...and LMAO at that BRush and Roy conversation.

I do think he's got the possibility of being a good assistant coach. JOB's stubbornness isn't going to show it's ugly face as much when he's not in charge. As an assistant, he can show the head coach "the stats"..but the head coach makes the decision.. he can suggest a PG iso, but the head coach makes the decision. ETC..

That said, I still feel bad for Dahntay and DC. Even though he won't be in charge, they've still got to work with him. And it's obvious they didn't like it. (for good reason)

Re: JOB to reappear as Mavs assistant coach?

The Rush/Hibbert conversation just goes further to say that I have never in my life seen or heard of an NBA coach that was so openly dispised by his players. JOB has a long list of players who will line up to say bad things about him, I don't know of another single coach that is that way. I think that says a lot really because we all know most players and coach's will do the "right thing" and say the "right thing" about former players/coach's but when it comes to O'Brien there is just no end to the list of players who will say bad things about him.

Basketball isn't played with computers, spreadsheets, and simulations. ChicagoJ 4/21/13

Re: JOB to reappear as Mavs assistant coach?

DC was one of the most vocal cracking on JOB too, and this should be lesson to everyone on why you just keep your mouth shut in situations like these. You never know when the person you are cracking on might work with you again.

No kidding. Not like people are always moving around (be it in the NBA or in the "real world")

Not to mention in todays world you never know who is reading what you wrote (especially if you meant to make it private and accidentally made it pubic)

Re: JOB to reappear as Mavs assistant coach?

So, Dallas is looking to focus on their perimeter game while solidifying their goal to be a 9 seed in the West within 2 years after Rick moves on to coach the Lakers once they get fed up with Mike Brown?